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This classic doesn't rock.(Fanscape: a lifestyle guide for the dedicated nonathlete)(Brief Article)

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| October 25, 2004 | Crossman, Matt | COPYRIGHT 2004 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Paper Lion is the Seinfeld of sports books: It's a book about nothing. George Plimpton goes to training camp with the Detroit Lions in 1963, and nothing happens. The book starts out well enough; its first 100 pages or so are fascinating, and you'll agree, up to then, with the reviewer's blurb on the back of my copy: "You'll wish it was six times longer." The rest is excruciatingly boring. You'll wish it were half as long.

Large chunks of the book read like thinly veiled disappointment that Alex Karras ...

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